The Wizard of Oz quotes

View Quote You see, I can't even scare a crow. They come from miles around just to eat in my field and laugh in my face. Oh, I'm a failure because I haven't got a brain.

View Quote Why, if I had a brain, I could — [begins singing]
I could while away the hours,
Conferrin' with the flowers,
Consultin' with the rain.
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.

View Quote I do believe in spooks! I do believe in spooks! I do, I do, I do, I do!

View Quote [waking up in the poppy fields during a snow shower] Unusual weather we're havin,' ain't it?

View Quote Alright, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch. Guards or no guards, I'll tear 'em apart. There's just one thing I want you guys to do...talk me out of it.

View Quote Let the joyous news be spread — The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead!

View Quote [singing] Ding Dong! The Witch is dead.
Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.

View Quote [singing] You're off to see the Wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz If ever a Wiz there was.
If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was
The Wizard of Oz Is one because
Because, because, because, because, because...
Because of the wonderful things he does...

View Quote Title Card: For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart; and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion. To those of you who have been faithful to it in return...and to the Young in Heart...we dedicate this picture.

View Quote Wizard's Guard: Not nobody, not nohow!

View Quote Wizard's Guard: Please don't cry anymore. I'll get you in to the Wizard somehow. I had an Aunt Em myself once.

View Quote Sign en route to the Witch's Castle: Witch's Castle, 1 mile. I'd turn back if I were you!

View Quote Hunk: Now look it, Dorothy. You ain't usin' your head about Miss Gulch. Think you didn't have any brains at all!
Dorothy: I have so got brains.
Hunk: Well, why don't you use 'em? When you come home, don't go by Miss Gulch's place. Then Toto won't get in her garden, and you won't get in no trouble, see?
Dorothy: Oh, Hunk. You just won't listen, that's all.
Hunk: Well, your head ain't made of straw, you know.

View Quote Dorothy: Why, Zeke, you're just as scared as I am!
Hunk: What's the matter? Gonna let a little ol' pig make a coward out of ya?
Hickory: Look at you, Zeke, you're just as white--
Auntie Em: Here, here, what's all this jabber-wapping when there's work to be done? I know three shiftless farm hands that'll be out of a job before they know it!
Hickory: Well, Dorothy was walking along the--
Auntie Em: I saw you tinkering with that contraption, Hickory. Now, you and Hunk get back to that wagon!
Hickory: All right, Mrs. Gale. But someday, they're gonna erect a statue to me in this town.
Auntie Em: Well, don't start posing for it now. Here, here, can't work on an empty stomach. Have some crullers.
Hunk: Gosh, Mrs. Gale.
Auntie Em: Just fried.
Hickory: Thanks.
Hunk: Swell.
Zeke: You see, Dorothy toppled in with the big Duroc--
Auntie Em: It's no place for Dorothy about a pig sty! Now, you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!
Zeke: Yes,am.
Dorothy: Auntie Em, really, you know what Miss Gulch said she was gonna do to Toto? She said she was gonna--
Auntie Em: Now, Dorothy, dear, stop imagining things. You always yourself into a fret over nothing.
Dorothy: No--
Auntie Em: Now, you just help us out today, and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble.

View Quote Miss Gulch: Mr. Gale!
Uncle Henry: Howdy, Miss Gulch.
Miss Gulch: I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy.
Uncle Henry: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
Miss Gulch: What's she done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg.
Uncle Henry: You mean she bit ya?
Miss Gulch: No, her dog.
Uncle Henry: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?
Miss Gulch: No!